Random Acts of Kindness
Posted on 18. Jun, 2009 by admin in Glengara Friday Church, Seniors, Serving Options
Our culture enjoys these reality shows on television which show exceeding kindness and compassion to people who have done so much in our community or are experiencing hardship. We share in the emotion as the recipients are overcome with joy on receiving such generosity. And isn’t it wonderful that some people can receive a blessing like this! The producers of the TV show consider they deserve this special treatment – this offer of kindness.
Now if God were producing the TV show, he would see our situation very differently, because God considers our rejection of him as serious and needing to be dealt with. Do we not deserve his punishment? But!
Let us pause here, to explain, for many of us maybe confused about Christianity and what it offers.
Relationships are at the crux of the matter! God created us to be in relationship with him, however we have cut ourselves off from God and have run life our own way. We have accepted his wonderful creation and the life he has given us- and yet we refuse to acknowledge God. Consequently we face judgement.
Therefore unlike the reality show –we do not deserve any kindness from God for we are in rebellion of his role in our lives. We say ‘Who needs God’. And unlike the reality show God has offered us freedom from the consequences of judgement. And this salvation is not a random act of kindness. It is purposeful –for God wants to restore a relationship with us, and it is not for a selected few -it is for everyone who accepts his offer of forgiveness.
In the TV reality show I have not seen anybody refuse an act of kindness – and I wonder why we find it so hard to accept God’s offer of kindness (mercy). So Christianity embraces a restored relationship with God, brought about by faith in what Jesus has done for us.
The reality is that God’s Act of Kindness is on offer for all – for in his love and mercy his one desire is that we return into a relationship with him and experience his love for us.
Come and enjoy our next meeting and hear more of God’s kindness in forgiving a prostitute facing execution.
